It’s Not Their Pop Idol, but a Bot. Fans Cheer Anyway. - The New York Times
Listers Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb World.. In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5 fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!” The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on FacebookMessenger with Maroon 5’s chatbot — an automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She now happily talks to the bot, too. Read on:- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-their-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0 Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad
See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI. https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239 On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb World..
In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5 <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/maroon_5/index.html?inline=nyt-org> fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”
The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on Facebook <http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org>Messenger with Maroon 5’s chatbot <https://www.messenger.com/t/maroon5> — an automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She now happily talks to the bot, too.
Read on:-
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not- their-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id= SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0
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And according to Business Insider, 80 percent of businesses want chatbots by 2020: http://www.businessinsider.com/80-of-businesses-want-chatbots-by-2020-2016-1... Regards, Mildred Achoch. On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, kanini mutemi via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI.
https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');>> wrote:
Listers
Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb World..
In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5 <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/maroon_5/index.html?inline=nyt-org> fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”
The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on Facebook <http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org>Messenger with Maroon 5’s chatbot <https://www.messenger.com/t/maroon5> — an automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She now happily talks to the bot, too.
Read on:-
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-th eir-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=Smart Briefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0
*Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
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